If there's an LED inside the power button on the 2320 itself, what color is it and is it steady or blinking? If it's completely off, then there could be a problem with the converter board, the motherboard, etc, etc...
If it's still under warranty, contact Dell Tech Support asap. If not under warranty, you might want to take it to a reputable PC shop for diagnosis and repair or contact Dell's Out Of Warranty service for assistance.
Only you can decide how much you're willing to spend to fix it vs. a new model. If the files aren't backed up on external media, the hard drive can be removed and installed in an enclosure that connects to another PC via USB to retrieve the data...
The problem is that a PC repairer Quoted me $120 just diagnosis for my 5 years old dell which is now worth $200, so if there is a way that I can check whether the motherboard or the Converter is bad or good using my multi-tester? otherwise that's alright
By the way, the hard disk is good as I plug it into another PC and is fine, maybe its as you mentioned the Converter, the motherboard or a fuse somewhere if there are any (not sure if the Power light itself is a fuse or not)?
Woohoo, I've googled around and found a post commanding to rest the CMOS, and I did that by removing the CMOS for 5 minutes than back and now the PC is back, the only problem is that now I feel like windows is loading slower than before and the Screen flicks white before starting is that normal?
Glad you got it started. I presume you meant you removed the CMOS battery for 5 min. You might want to replace that battery with a fresh one.
Then reboot and immediately press F12. Look for option to run the diagnostics. Run all of them, including RAM and extended hard drive tests. Be patient because this may take a while, depending on how much RAM is installed and how big the hard drive is. Copy error messages, if any...
Possible that BIOS settings aren't correct for your specific hardware because you reset them to the factory defaults by removing the battery. So you may have to "play" around in BIOS setup (reboot and immediately press F2) to see if you can resolve the slow boot and flickering.
For starters, make sure your boot hard drive is first in the boot sequence and USB Boot is Disabled (if this option is available) in BIOS setup, both of which could affect boot speed, as would an ailing hard drive...
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July 11th, 2017 11:00
For starters. try this:
Power off and unplug power cord from *rear of PC*. Press/hold power button for ~30 sec.
Reconnect power cord to rear of PC and see if it boots now.
badisr
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July 11th, 2017 15:00
Sorry, tried that already and didn't work?
Thanks
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July 12th, 2017 12:00
Sorry that didn't help...
If there's an LED inside the power button on the 2320 itself, what color is it and is it steady or blinking? If it's completely off, then there could be a problem with the converter board, the motherboard, etc, etc...
If it's still under warranty, contact Dell Tech Support asap. If not under warranty, you might want to take it to a reputable PC shop for diagnosis and repair or contact Dell's Out Of Warranty service for assistance.
www.dell.com/.../how-to-arrange-out-of-warranty-repair-on-your-dell-system
Only you can decide how much you're willing to spend to fix it vs. a new model. If the files aren't backed up on external media, the hard drive can be removed and installed in an enclosure that connects to another PC via USB to retrieve the data...
badisr
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July 12th, 2017 21:00
The problem is that a PC repairer Quoted me $120 just diagnosis for my 5 years old dell which is now worth $200, so if there is a way that I can check whether the motherboard or the Converter is bad or good using my multi-tester? otherwise that's alright
Thanks
badisr
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July 12th, 2017 21:00
By the way, the hard disk is good as I plug it into another PC and is fine, maybe its as you mentioned the Converter, the motherboard or a fuse somewhere if there are any (not sure if the Power light itself is a fuse or not)?
Thanks
badisr
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July 13th, 2017 01:00
Woohoo, I've googled around and found a post commanding to rest the CMOS, and I did that by removing the CMOS for 5 minutes than back and now the PC is back, the only problem is that now I feel like windows is loading slower than before and the Screen flicks white before starting is that normal?
Thanks
RoHe
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July 13th, 2017 12:00
Glad you got it started. I presume you meant you removed the CMOS battery for 5 min. You might want to replace that battery with a fresh one.
Then reboot and immediately press F12. Look for option to run the diagnostics. Run all of them, including RAM and extended hard drive tests. Be patient because this may take a while, depending on how much RAM is installed and how big the hard drive is. Copy error messages, if any...
Possible that BIOS settings aren't correct for your specific hardware because you reset them to the factory defaults by removing the battery. So you may have to "play" around in BIOS setup (reboot and immediately press F2) to see if you can resolve the slow boot and flickering.
For starters, make sure your boot hard drive is first in the boot sequence and USB Boot is Disabled (if this option is available) in BIOS setup, both of which could affect boot speed, as would an ailing hard drive...